Publications

2021-present:

  • Nejat, P., & Heirani-Tabas, A. (2024). Disease, death, morality, and politics: Pathogen prevalence, terror management, and conservatism as motivated social cognition. The Journal of Social Psychology, 1-16.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2402296 [ّLink]
  • Tamannaei, F., & Nejat, P. (2023). Effect of viewing female Instagram influencers’ selfies on women’s attitudes and tendency toward cosmetic surgery as mediated by facial dissatisfaction. Quarterly Journal of Applied Psychology, 17(2), 143-168 [ّLink]
  • Nejat, P., Heirani-Tabas, A., & Nazarpour, M. M. (2023) Moral foundations are better predictors of belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories than the Big Five personality traits. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1201695 [ّLink]
  • Nejat, P., & Heirani-Tabas, A. (2022). The effect of pictorial induction of death and Coronavirus threat on death thought accessibility: An experimental study based on Terror Management Theory. Journal of Advances in Cognitive Sciences, 24(2), 71-83 [ّLink]
  • Nejat, P., Rezvandel Ramzi, F., & Yalpanian, F. (2021). A review of Covid-19 conspiracy theories, and psychological determinants and consequences of belief in them. Rooyesh, 10(7), 199-212 [ّLink]
  • Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., ..., Bagherian, F., Nejat, P., et al. (2021). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nat Commun 12, 1481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9 [Link]
  • Nejat, P., & Bagherian, F. (2021). The role of Self-efficacy, Time Perspective, and Conformity Pressure in Temptation for Smoking and Substance Use among University Students, Contemporary Psychology, 14(2), 26-37 [Link]

2015-2020:

  • Nejat, P., Bagherian, F. & Hatami, J. (2020). Do Perceptions of Warmth and Competence Explain Moral Norms Regarding Different Social Roles? Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 20(1), 613-637. [Link]
  • Maleki, G., Zabihzadeh, A., Richman, M. J., Demetrovics, Z., & Mohammadnejad, F. (2020). Decoding and reasoning mental states in major depression and social anxiety disorder. BMC psychiatry, 20(1), 1-8.
  • Akbarian, H., Mazaheri, M. A., Zabihzadeh, A., & Green, J. D. (2020). Attachment-related anxiety and avoidance and regulation of interpersonal distance in close relationships. Current Psychology, 1-7.
  • Nejat, P., & Hatami, J. (2019). Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Moral Foundations Questionnaire in three Iranian samples, Bi-quarterly Journal of Social Cognition, 8(1), 107-124.[Link]
  • Zabihzadeh, A., Mazaheri, M. A., Hatami, J., Nikfarjam, M. R., Panaghi, L., & Davoodi, T. (2019). Cultural differences in conceptual representation of “Privacy”: A comparison between Iran and the United States. The Journal of social psychology, 159(4), 357-370.
  • Zabihzadeh, A., Mazaheri, M. A., Hatami, J., Panaghi, L., & Ghashang, N. (2018). Marital Privacy in Therapeutic Communication between Psychotherapist and Client: A Qualitative Study Based on Couples’ Perspective in Iranian Culture. Iranian Journal of Family Research, 54, 160-181.
  • Taqadusi, Ma’sumeh., Mazaheri, M. A., Shokri, O., Zabihzadeh, A. (2017). A Comparison of Types of Confrontation of People with Ethical Situations in Cyberspace and Real World. Iranian Journal of Strategy for Culture, 39, 97-122.
  • Mazaheri, M. A., Nejati, V., Zabihzadeh, A., & Maleki, Gh. (2017). Attachment styles and recognition of facial expression of emotion. Iranian Journal of Applied Psychological Research, 8(1), 1-11.
  • Nejat, P., Bagherian, F., Shokri, O., & Hatami, J. (2016). The pattern of reliance on moral foundations within mental representations of ideal society, and moral and immoral behaviors in an Iranian sample, Journal of Advances in Cognitive Science, 18 (3), 27-39 [Link]
  • Nejat, P., Bagherian, F., Hatami, J., & Shokri, O. (2015). Examining social-cognitive characteristics of the mental representation of moral concerns: Grouping, motivational orientation, and relational context of moral foundations, Bi-quarterly Journal of Social Cognition, 7, 109-126. [Link]
  • Mazidi, M., Bagherian, F., Nodehi, S., & Nejat, P. (2015). Explicit and implicit levels of religious, national, and modern identities in personality of adolescents and youths, Quarterly Journal of Applied Psychological Research, 35, 115-132.

Conference Presentations (2015-present):

  • Tamannaei, F., & Nejat, P. (2022). The effect of viewing female Instagram influencers’ selfies on women’s tendency toward cosmetic surgery as mediated by facial dissatisfaction. Paper presented at the 1st National Conference on Cyberspace, 1-3 November, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P. (2022). Emotions in Response to Moral Violations: Test of CAD Triad Hypothesis in Iran. Poster presented at the APA Annual Convention 2022, 4-6 August, Minneapolis, US.
  • Farkhondehfal, M., Nejat, P. (2022). Effect of social exclusion on state explicit & implicit self-esteem and the moderating role of trait explicit & implicit self-esteem. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Science, 18-20 May, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P. (2021). Beliefs, coping strategies, emotional experiences, and preventive behaviors during Covid-19 outbreak. Paper presented at the 1st National Congress of University and Covid-19, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P., & Farahi, N. (2020). Narcissism and big self: Implicit or explicit? Paper presented at the 8th International Conference of Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P., & Yaghoubi, F. Z. (2020). The effect of prosody on verbal perception in dichotic listening: Does a desperate voice bias attention? Paper presented at the 8th International Conference of Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P. (2019). Social perception and relational context: What social-relational coordinates are social roles specified by? Paper presented at The 7th Congress of Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, Iran.
  • Bagherian, F., & Nejat, P. (2019, February). Predictors of substance temptation: Personal attributes, social factors, or both? Paper presented at The 5th National Congress on Social Psychology, Tehran, Iran.
  • Zekri, F., Mazaheri, M. A., Hatami, J. & Nejat, P. (2017, November). Moral profile of Iranian male and female teenagers. Paper presented at The Sixth Congress of the Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, Iran.
  • Bagherian, F., & Nejat, P. (2017, October). Peace and Children: Attitudes about child abuse and methods of punishing children. Paper presented at The Fourth Iranian Congress of Social Psychology, Tehran, Iran.
  • Nejat, P., Bagherian, F., Hatami, J., & Shokri, O. (2017, April). Do perceptions of warmth and competence explain the effect of social role on moral judgment? Paper presented at the SASP-SPSSI Conference on The Morality of Conflict and Cooperation, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Nejat, P., Bagherian, F., Shokri, O., & Hatami, J. (2015). Mental representation of morality: The endorsement pattern of moral foundations among Iranians. 2015 Sixth International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS), Tehran, 72-76. [Link]